Improvement in bee-hives



ROBERSO'N ARNOLD,OF SU-FEOLK, AVIRGINIA.

Letters Patent anoaz, dated December 2o, i870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVES.

The Schedule referred to in thus Letters Patent and making of the same.

To all whom -it muyconcern l The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of an adjustable bee-hive head, as'will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the lart'to .which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describev its construction and operation, Vreferzing to theV annexed drawings, in which* V l y Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section; and

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section.

A represents the bottom or base of my bee-hive l head, provided with a cap.B, hinged to ,the bottom at one side, and secured by lock and key vat the other. In the head thus formed are placed honey-boxes, C

, VC, all four sides of which are made of or provided with glass, and in their bottoms are holes or openings corresponding with similar holes or openings in the bot.- tom or'base A.

On the under side of the bottom A are secured two cleats, D D, 'across' which are nailed slats,`E E. These slats are so arranged as to cover the openings in the bottom A, with a small space between them, as shown in fig. 2, thereby preventing the becs from waxing np said openings.

The complete head thus constructed can be placed on top of any bee-hive, and when the boxesare full of honey it can be removed and another put in its place, or the hive coveredwith any lid.

Having thus fully described my invention,

- What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-f Y ters `Patent, is.,-

As a new article of manufacture, a bee-hive head,

composed of the bottom A, cap B, boxes O O, and

slats E E, -all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and, described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of August, 1870.

Wlitnesses: ROBERSON ARNOLD.

A. N. MARR, J. E. HUfromNsoN. 

